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[KevinKorell]

Miami, FL New Times, 4/21/14:

If All Aboard Florida gets its way, Miamians will be able to hop on a train downtown as soon as next year and disembark in Orlando three hours later.

Article here.

[CNJRoss]

ProgressiveRailroading.com, 5/29:

All Aboard Florida unveils plans for Miami station

City of Miami and Dade County officials joined All Aboard Florida executives yesterday to unveil designs for All Aboard Florida's new multi-modal hub in Miami.

The hub will include mixed-use development with residential, office, commercial and retail space, while serving as a connector between All Aboard Florida’s passengers and Miami’s existing public transportation systems, according to an All Aboard Florida press release. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill L.L.P. planned and designed the hub.

More.

[CNJRoss]

Global Rail News, 5/29:

Miami station designs revealed

All Aboard Florida, the organisation looking to build a new 235-mile railway connecting south and central Florida, has unveiled designs for its new station in Miami.

Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM), the Miami station site will cover almost three million square feet, creating a new retail and leisure hub beneath the line, which will be elevated to integrate with the existing public transport network.

As well as Miami, the new route will include stations in Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach and Orlando.

More w/"Rendering" of proposed station.

[KevinKorell]

Progressive Railroading, 7/25/14:

Miami-Dade officials approve All Aboard Florida's Miami station plan

The Miami-Dade County Commissioners yesterday approved All Aboard Florida's land use plan to construct a nine-acre multi-modal station and transit-oriented development in downtown Miami.

That story

[KevinKorell]

Miami Today, 8/19/14:

All Aboard Florida unveils station details

All Aboard Florida has submitted plans detailing the look and configuration of its downtown Miami station.

The station is to rise on nearly 7 acres spanning from Northwest Third to Eighth streets between Northwest First Avenue to the east and the Metrorail to the west, according to a site plan and renderings All Aboard Florida turned in to Miami-Dade County.

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[KevinKorell]

Curbed Miami, 8/28/14:

Downtown Miami's "Grand Central" Station Will Change It All

Strolling through the western side of Downtown Miami (the area between I-95 and Miami Ave), can be quite a disheartening experience. When you envision the center of a city as well known as ours, you picture dense streets full of people and activity, especially in the immediate vicinity of the biggest station (Government Center Station) in the city's public mass transit rail system!

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[KevinKorell]

Miami, FL Herald, 10/6/14:

Massive MiamiCentral train station would be a new urban hub downtown

It might be the biggest thing to happen in downtown Miami since Henry Flagler brought his railroad south and created downtown Miami.

And it’s happening sooner than you might think, on the same long-vacant acreage where Flagler built his little Miami train depot more than a century ago.

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I thought Miami Central was one of the names given to the intermodal center out by the airport that hosts MetroRail, MIA Mover, and soon TriRail and Amtrak.

[KevinKorell]

The Next Miami, 1/27/15:

 

Construction On All Aboard Florida’s MiamiCentral To Begin Within 45 Days

 

Dade’s Rapid Transit Developmental Impact Committee granted final approval for the first phase of All Aboard Florida’s MiamiCentral station at a meeting last week. The meeting lasted less than thirty minutes, including a presentation on the project by Zyscovich Architects.

 

More here

[KevinKorell]

Miami, FL Herald, 3/6/15:

 

Miami-Dade mayor: a downtown Tri Rail station is 'once in a lifetime opportunity'

 

 

Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez made his case Friday for contributing $8 million in county funds to help build a Tri Rail station in All Aboard Florida's downtown Miami rail complex. 

 

"All Aboard Florida will give us a once in a lifetime opportunity to link up Tri Rail with downtown," Gimenez said in a Friday meeting with the Miami Herald Editorial Board. "If we don't take advantage of that opportunity now, it's going to cost us five to six times more in the future."

 

 

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[KevinKorell]

Miami, FL Herald,  3/9/15:

 

On track: Details for downtown Miami railway hub are revealed

 

 

Old photographs of the original Florida East Coast Railway passenger station in downtown Miami show a two-story wooden structure with a peaked roof and windows with awnings.

 

Demolished in 1963, the old train depot vanished into history after passenger rail service to Miami ended in the 1960s.

 

Work has now begun on a new station at the same spot that will bring back passenger train service — this time between Miami and Orlando.

 

 

 

 

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